QT Cannon Fodder's Record: Dekachapter 243

Chp 2421: Getting Stuffed Also Worked

The only way to solve your worries was to get rich. If you couldn't get rich, getting stuffed also worked.

When Ning Shu got to the restaurant, she ordered a table full of food and started eating while listening to the conversations of people around her.

Catching up on gossip was nice.

As she was eating, someone suddenly sat down in front of her. She glanced up. It was Mei Ziqing.

It felt like she hadn't seen her in forever.

"Where have you been? You didn't answer any of my messages and completely disappeared," said Mei Ziqing. "I thought you got eliminated."

Ning Shu swallowed what was in her mouth and wiped her hands. "Some problems came up with my system space and the chat system broke. Why were you looking for me?"

"No wonder. It's nothing much, just, didn't I borrow 100 faith points from you? I wanted to pay you back." Mei Ziqing waved over the waiter and ordered a pot of tea.

"No worries." Ning Shu said to Mei Ziqing, “What do you like? Order something."

"I'm good." Mei Ziqing took a sip of tea, then transferred 110 faith points to Ning Shu.

Ning Shu took a look. "Why did you give me 10 extra?"

"Consider it interest," said Mei Ziqing.

Ning Shu didn't accept it and transferred the 10 points back to Mei Ziqing. "There is no need to be so polite. We are friends after all."

Mei Ziqing smiled, then took another sip of tea. "You should hurry up and become an ultra task-taker so that you can go to the higher level space. That space has way more resources compared to this space."

The space Mei Ziqing was referring to was a space that was of a higher level compared to the fabricated space.

Ning Shu nodded. "I'm working towards it. It's a little difficult though."

She had no idea when she would finally be able to become an ultra task-taker.

In reality, though, she didn't have that strong of a desire to become an ultra task-taker. If she didn't construct her own world, even if she became an ultra task-taker, she could still be eliminated easily.

On the other hand, once she constructed her own world, even if she didn't become an ultra task-taker, she would still have more of a control over her own fate.

One’s rank didn't necessarily represent one's strength.

As of now, she just hoped that she would be able to find more world origin powers. Currently, she only had a wood attribute origin.

There were still several that she needed to find.

It felt like there was still a very long way to go.

Mei Ziqing chatted with Ning Shu for a while, then after checking the time, left.

Ning Shu watched Mei Ziqing leave, then finished the rest of the food. Afterward, she leisurely strolled around on the street.

She bought some more things from the street stalls to decorate the system space.

After returning to the system space, she took in the greatly changed space around her and was in a very good mood.

Ning Shu took out the Unsurpassable Martial Arts. The moment she opened it, she smelled a refreshing scent of plants that seemed full of vitality. The lotus flower, which was the wood attribute world origin power, swayed slightly.

There will definitely come a day when she finished gathering all of the world origin powers and construct a world of her own.

Then she'll have an unending stream of faith power.

Ning Shu pulled out a book from the bookshelf and sat down on the sofa to start reading.

However, as she read, her expression became weirder and weirder. This book was about a love-hate entanglement between a task-taker couple. The drama between them was seriously ridiculous.

As the drama progressed to the later stages, they even destroyed a plane. However, that still wasn't the end of it and they continued their entanglement in another plane.

Ning Shu: ????

Ning Shu closed the book, then opened it again. Maybe she didn't open it right?

Task-takers were also people and so they naturally also had love-hate entanglement and feelings. She wondered if this was a true story or just fiction?

Ning Shu tossed the book in the trash can. It was enough that she would encounter this kind of thing in her tasks, why was she encountering them even back in the system space?

As expected, it wasn't the best choice to buy a bunch of books cheap from a street stall.

Translator: Kaho

Chp 2422: Needed Oxygen!!

Ning Shu picked up another book, and after she finished reading, she asked 2333, "Can I see the entrustor now?"

"… Not yet. Let's wait until the black hole caused by the two pearls fusing disappears. You shouldn't get too close to the black hole either. If you get sucked in, I can't save you," said 2333.

Ning Shu: ...

"Then let's enter the task," said Ning Shu.

Ning Shu felt a moment of dizziness, then her soul entered another body. She heard a bang bang bang sound. When she opened her eyes, all that entered her vision was pitch-black darkness.

She could faintly hear the sound of someone singing, but she couldn't understand any of the words.

Furthermore, her lungs felt like they were burning. She had been holding her breath for so long it felt like her lungs were about to explode.

She needed oxygen!!

Ning Shu started touching her surroundings. She had been trapped in a very small space.

The banging from outside still continued. It almost sounded like they were nailing in a coffin.

She was being buried alive?

Ning Shu immediately stopped moving. The more she moved, the more she'd use up the precious little oxygen within the coffin.

How come she encountered something like this the moment she came to this world?

As Ning Shu held her breath, it felt like needles were stabbing her lungs. Her consciousness was starting to become hazy.

She silently chanted the methods of the Unsurpassable Martial Arts and a thin stream of spiritual energy poured into her body.

Thanks to the spiritual energy, she finally stopped feeling so suffocated.

She started cultivating while receiving the storyline.

The original host’s name was Liu Xiaoya. She was almost 14 years old, and the reason why she was here was that she was about to get married. However, it was a ghost marriage.

Usually, ghost marriages were made through a 'ghost matchmaker' by pairing the birth characters and death dates of two deceased.

However, there were some ghost marriages in which someone deceased was matched with someone still living. Since ghosts and humans had different paths, the chosen living person would have to die.

Generally, it was women who were sacrificed for marriage. No men got sacrificed for this.

Liu Xiaoya came from an ordinary family that struggled to feed themselves with their fields.

A wealthy local family had wanted to hold a ghost marriage for their son. At first, Liu Xiaoya's parents refused to agree to it, but their family was seriously in dire straits.

Furthermore, Liu Xiaoya was a girl. So in the end, they sold her for 10 taels of silver.

10 taels of silver was no small amount. People like Liu Xiaoya's parents couldn't even save up one tael of silver in a year.

Liu Xiaoya was taken to the rich family's house, washed clean, put into a wedding dress, and then locked into the coffin.

Following that, she got buried alive.

Ning Shu: !!!!

Afterward, perhaps because it was not Liu Xiaoya's time to die yet, the wife of this wealthy family had a dream. She said that she saw her son in the dream, and her son told her not to let his wife die.

Setting aside the question of whether this was true or not, in any case, Liu Xiaoya survived this calamity and her fortune even turned, allowing her to become a rich young madame.

The price was a lifetime of widowhood.

Compared to death, this result should have been slightly better, but that wasn't the case.

Liu Xiaoya felt that the Li residence was haunted. Sometimes she would see a pair of extremely pale hands with blackish-red nails suddenly reach out from beneath the bed.

Every night as she slept, she felt like there was something extremely heavy pressing on her body. She would even faintly hear the sound of someone calling out to her.

She told the Li family that there was a ghost, but they didn't believe her.

So Liu Xiaoya lived every day full of fear, to the point she became very haggard. Her lips were bloodless and she was always out of it.

That ghost said that she was his wife, that he was Sanlang.

Liu Xiaoya's ghost husband had been the third son of the Li family.

Liu Xiaoya was extremely scared. She felt like she was constantly in an ice cellar. Her body had no trace of warmth.

Translator: Kaho

Chp 2423: A Nightmarish Life Began

Back then, Liu Xiaoya's parents had sold her to the Li family without asking for her consent.

She had no room to object. Her parents said they had raised her until she was of age and she needed to repay the family now.

Deep down, Liu Xiaoya's parents knew that their decision might not lead to a good outcome.

If their daughter was really being married off to become a young madam, then her dowry and all the other ceremonies wouldn’t be lacking, but they were buying her with silver.

However, her family was so desperate that they had no other choice.

Flustered and helpless, Liu Xiaoya was taken to the Li family and a nightmarish life began.

Although she wasn’t dead, she had a ghost for a husband.

Liu Xiaoya was extremely scared and tried to run away multiple times, but she kept getting caught by the Li family.

As the number of times Liu Xiaoya ran away increased, the Li family’s patience waned and they locked Liu Xiaoya in the room she shared with the ghost.

From then on, Liu Xiaoya spent every waking moment trapped with her ghost husband.

The ghost’s face was pale and his eyes were dark. He still wore the clothes he was buried in, and when he walked it looked like he was floating.

Furthermore, Liu Xiaoya was the only one who could see him.

When her stomach swelled, no one knew why.

The Li family concluded that Liu Xiaoya committed adultery and drowned her in the pond. They held her down until she drowned…

And just like that, Liu Xiaoya died.

After Ning Shu finished accepting the plot, it took her a while to get over the shock. The plot caught Ning Shu completely off guard. In the end, the family of three cheerfully became ghosts?

Liu Xiaoya's wish was to break free from Li Sanlang. She was genuinely terrified of him and wanted to leave the Li family.

Ning Shu’s breath hitched and she felt pain in her chest. She took a breath and continued cultivating.

Since the beginning, Liu Xiaoya had no chance to resist. She was sold by her parents like she was merchandise. When she arrived at the Li family’s home, she was terrified every day by her ghost husband until she was drowned as punishment.

Liu Xiaoya was unable to resist and unable to break free.

As far as her parents were concerned, exchanging a daughter for a huge sum of money was a net profit.

As for the Li family, they had bought Liu Xiaoya and so they were entitled to do whatever they wanted to her.

No one cared about what Liu Xiaoya felt. They didn’t care what she thought, they didn’t consider it worthy of their attention.

Liu Xiaoya’s fate epitomized the lives of countless feudal women.

She was forced to go with the flow, and had no way to take control of her own destiny.

Ning Shu closed her eyes and refocused on cultivating. At any rate, she wouldn’t die.

The plan was to wait for Li Sanlang, the ghostly husband, to appear in his mother’s dream and make his request.

The coffin was airtight. Spiritual energy from outside couldn’t flow properly and only a little bit reached her. Ning Shu had to rely on that meager amount of spiritual energy to maintain her body’s basic needs.

She didn't know how Liu Xiaoya had managed to stay in the coffin, waiting to die alone in the dark while the people outside read her last rites.

The feeling was truly indescribable.

Ning Shu sank into a deep meditative state to reduce the energy that the body required.

She didn't know how long she had been in the coffin when she heard the sound of its lid being pried off mixed with the voice of a woman.

"Hurry up and get her out of there quickly. Sanlang said to let her continue living as his wife."

"It's been half a day. She’s probably already dead," a male voice replied.

"Let’s open it anyway and take a look. If she really is dead, we can bury her together with Sanlang."

Light filtered past her eyelids as Ning Shu was hauled out of the coffin. She felt incredibly stiff.

"She’s dead?" Lady Wang stared at Ning Shu. "If she’s dead, put her back in the coffin."

Ning Shu: …

Translator: Kiara

MTL Editor: Shark

#Kiara’s Comments: Cheating husband, ambitious husband, a-hole husbands, ghost husband, how many more til Ning Shu gets bingo-

#Shark’s Comments: A ghost husband? Sure. Creepy, but alright then. A ghost baby, though? How does a ghost even…

TLC: Kaho

Chp 2424: She’s Still Alive?

Ning Shu quickly opened her eyes, still feeling weak. Her eyes were unable to adapt to the strong light and closed a moment later.

"She’s still alive?" Lady Wang raised her eyebrows at the sight and had people carry Ning Shu into a room.

When Ning Shu started to inhale large mouthfuls of air, her rigid body began to loosen up little by little.

Lady Wang stood at the bedside and looked down at her. "Sanlang said not to let you die and to make you into our family’s young madam. Consider this a blessing of good fortune."

"You will be a member of the Li family from now on. You must abide by the family’s rules and carry out the traditional duties of a good wife. You must not be impure and must remain chaste for Sanlang.”

"My Sanlang is simply too soft-hearted and couldn’t bear to let you die." Lady Wang reminisced and sorrowfully said, "It's a pity that he left this world so soon."

Ning Shu's face was expressionless and didn't say anything. Lady Wang actually thought that this was charity?

Liu Xiaoya would spend the rest of her life in front of a memorial tablet.

For just ten taels of silver.

Right now, Ning Shu had no way to solve issues that could usually be solved with money.

Lady Wang droned on about the Li family's customs. When she left, she locked the door from the outside.

After Lady Wang was gone, Ning Shu moved. She sat cross-legged on the bed and began to cultivate.

Since the request was to break free of Li Sanlang, force was essential.

Because they were in the ancient era, spiritual energy was abundant. As soon as Ning Shu started practicing the Unsurpassable Martial Arts, spiritual energy started revolving in her body.

The lungs that previously ached from the suffocation were no longer in pain.

Ning Shu sank deeper into cultivation. By the time she woke up, the sky was already dark. There was no light in the room, it was pitch black.

Ning Shu got out of bed. Suddenly, a pair of cold hands reached out from under the bed to grab her ankles.

The hands were extremely cold. They felt like chunks of ice. The sudden freezing grip on Ning Shu's ankles made her jump up in fright and shiver.

In the middle of such a pitch black and extremely quiet environment, a pair of hands suddenly grabbing her ankles was extremely unsettling.

No wonder Liu Xiaoya had been so terrified.

Ning Shu felt the chill along her ankles slowly spread all over her body. Even with the Unsurpassable Martial Arts protecting her body, the cold made her teeth chatter.

If she was an ordinary person, evil energy would very likely enter her body.

The owner of the hands was probably Li Sanlang. Ning Shu calmed down and tried to swing her ankles, wanting to get rid of the hands.

But no matter how much she squirmed, his grip didn’t loosen. Ning Shu crouched down and tried to pull the hands off.

"Let go," Ning Shu said coldly.

The ice-cold hands continued to grasp her ankles.

Ning Shu rolled her eyes. In that case, he shouldn’t blame her for being ruthless.

She chanted an exorcism spell, drew out a talisman, and stuck it in the air a short distance away from the pale, icy hands.

The hands trembled, then released her ankles and withdrew back under the bed.

Ning Shu lifted up her red skirt to see blue and black hand imprints on her ankles.

She walked over to the door and tried to open it, but it was locked.

Ning Shu banged on the door several times. Then she took a deep breath and started yelling loudly. "I'm hungry! I’m hungry! I’m hungry! I’m hungry…!"

"What are you shouting for?" Lady Wang took out a key and opened the door. Several servant girls trailed behind her.

One of the servants entered the room to light a candle. The room immediately brightened.

Lady Wang ordered the girl to place food on the table. There were two dishes and a bowl of rice. The meal didn't look too bad.

One of the dishes was shredded pork and one fried chinese cabbage with vinegar.

For Liu Xiaoya, who hadn’t seen meat and fish all year round, such a meal was really not bad. Not bad at all, in fact.

The Li family was rich, so of course their food was carefully prepared. However, Liu Xiaoya still chose to escape.

Translator: Kiara

MTL Editor: Shark

TLC: Kaho

Chp 2425: Your Identity Isn’t Very Presentable

Being followed by a ghost who claimed to be her husband and who liked to pop out of nowhere all the time made Liu Xiaoya constantly feel like she was on the verge of having a heart attack.

She was absolutely terrified of ghosts. She would rather stay widowed her entire life than have such a husband.

"Eat up and don't say that the Li family treated you unfairly," Lady Wang said indifferently.

Lady Wang was the madam of a rich family. Her hair was decorated with all kinds of hairpins, making it appear bright and colorful.

Ning Shu also didn’t bother to be polite. She picked up the chopsticks and started to dig in. If she didn't eat properly, then how would she have the strength to beat Li Sanlang?

Lady Wang watched Ning Shu eat, almost burying her face in the bowl. With an arrogant and contemptuous smile, she extended a hand to stroke her hair.

When Ning Shu set her bowl down, Lady Wang said, "You will be staying in this room. You are Sanlang's widow. Since your identity isn’t very presentable, you must not wander around if we have guests."

"Originally we’d perform a suturing of the yin. However, we of the Li family are a family of good deeds and that’s why there’s no need for it," Lady Wang said magnanimously.

Ning Shu: !!!

Suturing the yin meant sewing the bottom of a woman shut, leaving only a hole the width of a chopstick for the passage of menstrual blood.

Some households were afraid that widowed women wouldn’t be able to withstand the loneliness and would do things that would embarrass their husband's family, so they cut that problem off at the source.

Ning Shu cursed inwardly.

When Ning Shu noticed that Lady Wang was staring at her, her lips twitched. Was Lady Wang expecting undying gratitude?

She remained silent and expressionless.

Lady Wang frowned at Ning Shu's impassive appearance and said, "Country girls. They don't understand etiquette at all."

Then she stood up. "Remember everything I told you. You are now a daughter-in-law of the Li family and must not do anything that would cause the family to lose face. The Li family is a great reputable family."

Ning Shu nodded. "I’ll bear it in mind."

Lady Wang left and locked the door as she did, probably thinking that Ning Shu was young and might do something.

After having had such a filling meal, Ning Shu intended to go back to bed and continue cultivating. But when she turned around, she saw Li Sanlang standing behind her. He was still dressed in his burial clothes, complexion pale and eyes rimmed with black.

He stood there silently.

Ning Shu's heart raced for a moment before quickly calming down.

Holy crap, that was scary! Sooner or later that sort of fright would make someone sick.

What was with that?

The temperature in the room sharply dropped and its atmosphere grew extremely gloomy.

Ning Shu and Li Sanlang stood in opposition. His body floated in midair but his legs were invisible.

Ning Shu faintly said, "Since you’re already dead, why not reincarnate?"

Instead he was looking for a wife because he was lonely. When you’re dead, you’re dead. And yet he still wanted to harm people.

Li Sanlang opened his black-ish red lips. "You are my wife."

Li Sanlang's voice was hoarse, like he was still going through puberty. He was probably only sixteen years old.

What was a kid like him getting married for?

Oh. She forgot that they were in the ancient era.

"You are my wife," Li Sanlang repeated.

Ning Shu remained indifferent. "I didn’t want to be your wife at all."

"But you are already my wife," Li Sanlang said. The temperature in the room became lower and lower.

Ning Shu passed through Li Sanlang and took off her shoes to sit cross-legged on the bed.

Suddenly, a hand reached out from the folded bedding and settled on her waist. In seconds, she felt like she was dropped into an icehouse.

Looking down, she saw a pair of pale bluish hands with black and red nails.

Ning Shu humphed and rolled her eyes. She drew a talisman in the air a short distance from it and it struck the hand on her waist.

Li Sanlang stubbornly held onto her waist. When the talisman struck him, it crackled and emitted smoke. In the end, he was unable to withstand it and withdrew his hand.

"How do you know these things?" Li Sanlang said resentfully. He floated in front of Ning Shu, his face so close to hers that the tips of their noses nearly bumped into each other.

Translator: Kiara

MTL Editor: Shark

TLC: Kaho

Chp 2426: How Beautiful Could He Possibly Be?

Li Sanlang's appearance was even more frightening up close.

Ning Shu appeared extremely calm. Inwardly, she felt speechless for Liu Xiaoya. Other people’s ghost husbands were all blessed with handsomeness that angered gods and made people resentful. That was why they obeyed the ghost husband after some initial resistance.

But Liu Xiaoya's husband was truly… It was hard to explain in just a few words.

However, he had already died and became a ghost, so how beautiful could he possibly be?

"Mother said you are a country girl. How could you know these things?" Li Sanlang asked resentfully. His tone was dark and his posture emitted hostility. Between that and the way his hair floated, he looked strikingly similar to a malicious spirit.

Ning Shu’s expression didn't change. "I still know a lot."

"You are my wife. You should not disobey me." Li Sanlang became more and more agitated.

And because of his anger, the temperature in the room steeply dropped.

Ning Shu mobilized the spiritual energy within her body to withstand the cold air.

Li Sanlang unexpectedly spread his arms to embrace Ning Shu. It felt like she was pressed up against a thousand-year-old glacier.

It was a cold that seeped into her bones.

"We should consummate our marriage now." Li Sanlang moved closer to Ning Shu's ear as he spoke. She felt like her ears were going to freeze off.

Just talk normally. Why did he need to get so close?

Although the reason why Li Sanlang did not reincarnate and still yearned for something in the mortal world was unknown, she knew she needed to get away from him.

She had to leave the Li family.

Otherwise, she would somehow become pregnant.

Ning Shu felt like she was becoming frozen to the core being hugged by Li Sanlang.

What the f*ck?

Even with such a short period of contact, Ning Shu understood that Li Sanlang was very controlling.

He wanted to consummate the marriage? How do a person and a ghost consummate?

"Release me or I’ll make everyone suffer," Ning Shu said. When ghost energy entered the human body, it would decrease the person’s lifespan and affect their ability to think, causing them to feel constant brain fog.

"You are my wife. Of course we have to consummate the marriage." Li Sanlang's tone was very displeased.

"Are you going to disobey me?"

Ning Shu felt him tighten his hold on her body.

Ning Shu: What the heck are these tasks?

Ning Shu confidently recited a spell and Li Sanlang loosened his hold on her. As she recited the spell more and more quickly, the air around them wavered.

Li Sanlang was forced away from Ning Shu. His expression grew more impatient. "Would you go against your husband’s wishes?"

Ning Shu rolled her eyes and drew a talisman in the air. The talisman wasn’t for dealing with Li Sanlang, but to integrate the spell into her body.

It would help her resist the cold and his evil energy.

But without cinnabar, a drawn talisman was only half as effective. If she had a paper talisman, she would be able to keep Li Sanlang away.

"Liu Xiaoya, you are disobeying me." Li Sanlang threatened her again.

But Ning Shu didn't stop chanting.

Since Li Sanlang was unable to get close to her, he grew furious.

"Do not disobey me! If you do not test my patience, I will be generous," Li Sanlang said.

It was clear that Li Sanlang had been spoiled and arrogant since he was a child: always looking down at others from above.

Oh, did he think she would immediately agree when he offered generosity?

Tsk. Did he see people as pets to be trained with generosity and favors?

Ning Shu paid him no mind and closed her eyes.

She continued to chant the spell and simultaneously drew a talisman in the air to hit Li Sanlang.

Li Sanlang was so incredibly enraged that he stormed off.

Translator: Kiara

MTL Editor: Shark

TLC: Kaho

Chp 2427: Like a Fricking Haunted House

The chill in the air dissipated. Li Sanlang had left.

Ning Shu opened her eyes and looked at the fog through a crack in the boarded up window.

Her room seemed to be on an isolated part of a lake.

Frick, it truly was like a fricking haunted house.

Ning Shu went back to bed and thought about how to complete her task.

She had to leave the Li family, but even if she paid ten taels of silver, she wouldn’t be allowed to leave.

She now belonged to the Li family. Even in death, she would still be the Li family’s ghost.

Liu Xiaoya had never signed a slave contract with the Li family. The moment she was delivered to the Li family, she had been packed into a coffin.

This was why it was possible to just sneak out of here. However, Liu Xiaoya had tried to escape many times, but she was caught every time.

Ning Shu decided that she would wait until she got a bit stronger, then get out of here.

She got up, then sat down cross legged to start cultivating. She must leave this place. Afterward, she could slowly figure out the rest.

As to how she would survive when she left the Li family, she certainly couldn’t go back to Liu Xiaoya's family.

She had already been sold off. Her return would only incur disaster for them. Their act of heartlessly selling their daughter also meant that they had fully severed their ties with her.

They had sold off their daughter for a ghost marriage. Her fate was either death or life as a widow.

Ning Shu counted her skills on her fingers. She knew how to perform exorcisms, but with how scared Liu Xiaoya was of ghosts, if she became an exorcist, she was basically asking for a heart attack.

She could drop dead at any minute.

Maybe she should just become a female doctor. She’d be able to scrape together a living as a midwife.

She had a good plan, but sadly, man proposes, God disposes.

Ning Shu was not permitted to leave the room. When it was time to eat, the food would be delivered and then she would be locked in again.

The window was nailed securely shut and Ning Shu couldn't get out.

So far, Ning Shu had only met Lady Wang and a few servant girls. She hadn’t even seen Li Sanlang's father before since Lady Wang was in charge of the matters in the rear court.

Ning Shu was unaware of even the basic situation of the Li family.

However, she wasn’t worried. When she regained her strength, she could just rip off the roof and leave.

She didn't understand the importance of this marriage. Why would they bury someone alive for the sake of maintaining their so-called female virtue?

What the frick?

Ning Shu sat down and began to eat. Underneath the table, a hand grasped her ankle.

Ning Shu expressionlessly swallowed her food and used her other foot to stomp on Li Sanlang's hand.

The way he constantly appeared out of nowhere had scared Liu Xiaoya out of her mind.

Honestly speaking, Li Sanlang was like a nutjob. Living with such a person wasn’t easy.

It wasn’t difficult for Ning Shu to understand why Liu Xiaoya wanted to escape the Li family and be free from Li Sanlang.

It would be suffocating to live this way.

Ning Shu tried several times, but she wasn’t able to kick Li Sanlang’s hand.

Her foot felt frozen stiff.

Ning Shu calmly and gracefully said ‘f*ck’, and then began to chant a spell.

Frick, she was still eating.

If it had been Liu Xiaoya in this situation, she would’ve already dropped the tableware in fright and screamed.

Ning Shu drew the talisman in the air and sent it at Li Sanlang's pale hand.

The sound of Li Sanlang’s rapid breathing was incredibly sinister.

"Liu Xiaoya, don't test my patience," his voice came from under the table, but no one was there.

Translator: Kiara

MTL Editor: Wheat

TLC: Kaho

Chp 2428: You Want to Kill Me

So scary. Ning Shu felt that Li Sanlang was a psychopath.

From his treatment of Liu Xiaoya, it was clear that he only thought of her as his possession.

He viewed her as nothing more than his plaything.

Ning Shu picked up the chopsticks again and narrowed her eyes. She wanted to exterminate Li Sanlang.

He was clearly leaning towards the path of becoming a malicious spirit.

She wondered how Li Sanlang had died.

"You want to kill me," Li Sanlang suddenly said.

"No," Ning Shu calmly denied.

"Interesting, interesting," Li Sanlang said sinisterly. Ning Shu suddenly felt a tremendous force attack her body and she was ruthlessly thrown against the wall.

Ning Shu fell to the ground coughing and placed a hand on her chest.

She wiped the blood stains from the corners of her mouth. She had vaguely sensed the attack, however, since it was invisible, she couldn’t avoid it.

"I am your husband. You should obey me." Li Sanlang's voice came from beside Ning Shu's ear. She could feel his cold breath pouring into her ear.

Ning Shu stood up and chuckled softly. She looked around the whole room, but didn’t see Li Sanlang.

Even if he was invisible, there would still be air fluctuations around him.

Ning Shu was a grudgeful person. She would return the harm done to her to the point that the other person couldn’t even beg for forgiveness. Ning Shu’s fingers moved rapidly to form hand seals. A talisman formed and flew towards an empty space.

With a boom, a sonic wave exploded. Ning Shu heard a smothered groan of pain.

The dishes on the table fell on the ground, shattering, then a fragment flew straight towards Ning Shu.

"If you won’t listen, then die." The sinister speech rang out from every corner of the room.

Ning Shu dodged to avoid the fragment. But then, the table, stools, cabinets, flower vases and bed all smashed towards Ning Shu as well.

Ning Shu: …

The bed moved to block her way as attacks came from every direction.

Ning Shu took a deep breath and extended her fist, which was wrapped in a small amount of transparent dragon-shaped energy, and punched the bed.

The solid wood bed immediately fell apart and the boards splintered. Ning Shu smashed the other objects attacking her.

Ning Shu noticed a fluctuation in the air and started rapidly forming hand seals with a cold expression. A talisman quickly shot out followed by the dragon-shaped energy.

The talisman struck with a boom and the dragon-shaped energy passed through it to burrow into Li Sanlang.

Ning Shu didn't know Li Sanlang’s current condition, but the room became quiet. He must have left.

Ning Shu somewhat feebly sat on the ground and gasped for air. She hadn’t expected to get into a fight with Li Sanlang so quickly.

A servant girl came over to take away the tableware. When she opened the door, she saw the mess in the room. She was shocked and stared at Ning Shu who was sitting on the ground.

The servant girl immediately turned around and left, locking the door behind her. Soon, there were chaotic sounds of footsteps outside the room, followed by the sound of the door being unlocked.

Lady Wang stood at the door and saw the destroyed room. "What are you doing?"

Ning Shu cried out and promptly ran to the door, "There's a ghost!!!!"

Ning Shu dashed into Lady Wang, causing her to stumble backwards. "What are you doing? Have you no propriety?"

"There’s a ghost! There’s a ghost!!!" Ning Shu kept running.

It would be best to escape now.

Lady Wang immediately understood Ning Shu's intent and shouted at the servant girl beside her, "Stop her! That damned girl is trying to run."

The servant girl immediately dashed toward Ning Shu, but Ning Shu easily dodged her. These servant girls were no match for Ning Shu.

Suddenly, an unknown force rushed into Ning Shu’s body and she could no longer control her body.

She was soon caught.

Ning Shu: WTF

Was it ghost possession?

"Throw her back in. The Li family has supplied her with good food and accommodations yet she still wants to escape. Ungrateful wretch."

"It would take you eight lifetimes of accumulated fortune to marry into the Li family, but you still want to run off?" Lady Wang said coldly. "If it weren't for my son's kindness, you would have been buried already."

Translator: Kiara

MTL Editor: Wheat

TLC: Kaho

Chp 2429: You Belong to Me

Ning Shu’s limp body was carried by two servant girls and she was thrown back into the room.

It went without saying that the room was still a mess of splintered wood, plates, and porcelain fragments. When Ning Shu was thrown in, she was inevitably hurt.

Lady Wang glared at Ning Shu. "You’d better not try to escape again. I was originally planning to release you after a while, but since you’re this inconsiderate, I'll be keeping you locked up."

"Sanlang was so tenderhearted in letting you live. Really, if you had just died, we wouldn’t be suffering such inconvenience."

"Even if we were to sell you, it wouldn't make up for the damages in this room. If you think I’ll be replacing these, keep dreaming." Lady Wang locked the door while complaining.

Ning Shu inhaled deeply. Her arm had been stabbed by a piece of porcelain when she fell. On top of that, she felt powerless. An extremely cold and gloomy feeling accumulated in her body.

Shortly after, a force burst out of Ning Shu's body.

Li Sanlang floated in front of Ning Shu. "Don't try escaping again. You're my wife, you belong to me. Next time, I'll kill you."

Ning Shu gradually regained control of her own body and lifted up her injured arm.

Li Sanlang crouched down and looked at Ning Shu's arm. "I gave you the opportunity to be obedient. Now it’s your fault that you're injured."

Ning Shu expressionlessly raised her eyes and saw Li Sanlang's frightening face.

Li Sanlang stretched out a pale hand and touched Ning Shu's wounded arm. "You should behave next time. If you don't, I'll cut off your feet and you’ll never run again."

Ning Shu lifted her head to look at Li Sanlang. She silently began planning. She had no tools or cinnabar on hand. She wouldn’t be able to do anything to Li Sanlang with her current strength.

She would probably just end up annoying Li Sanlang even more.

"Liu Xiaoya, your appearance really isn’t great," Li Sanlang said.

Ning Shu wiped away the blood on her arm. "So what if I’m ugly? I don’t have to look at myself. You’re the one grossed out."

Liu Xiaoya was a country girl. She spent a lot of time outside so her skin was rough and tanned. How could she possibly be pretty?

If she hadn’t been married off, her entire life would have been spent working in the field. Although it would be difficult, she would at least have had a peaceful life.

"Anyway, I won’t disdain you," Li Sanlang added.

Ning Shu ignored him. Why would she care whether or not he disdained her? Was he expecting her to be deeply grateful to him?

What she looked like was her business alone.

The room was a mess. Ning Shu stood up to clear a spot where she could sit cross legged and cultivate.

Li Sanlang floated beside Ning Shu and watched her tidy up. He asked Ning Shu, "Do you loathe me? Even though I already said I’m ok with you being ugly."

Ning Shu: Ha. Ha. Ha…

Li Sanlang suddenly clutched Ning Shu's neck. "You don’t like me?"

Frick, this psycho!

Ning Shu struggled to breathe. Her fingers moved rapidly to form a talisman.

The talisman struck Li Sanlang's body and his chest hissed and emitted black smoke.

Ning Shu clenched her fist and struck Li Sanlang, but it passed through his body.

Physical attacks were useless against Li Sanlang.

"These little tricks have no effect on me. You’re just provoking me." Li Sanlang clutched Ning Shu's neck tighter.

Ning Shu’s lungs felt like they were being pricked by needles.

Why the heck was she always the one that got injured? First she was sealed into a coffin and now she was being strangled by a ghost.

Ning Shu silently vowed to crush Li Sanlang.

Ning Shu's fingers flew. The incantation nearly emptied all the spiritual energy in her body.

A golden talisman struck Li Sanlang and he was forced to release her.

Translator: Kiara

MTL Editor: Wheat

#Kiara’s Comments: Okay I’m extremely guilty of loving enemies to lovers, particularly ones where they actually fight and intimidate each other. This chapter is lowkey doing it for me.

TLC: Kaho

Chp 2430: Violence Wasn’t Always a Solution to Problems…

Ning Shu fell to the ground, gasping for air. She held her chest as she coughed and stared at Li Sanlang. His body was emitting black smoke and his clothes looked like they had been burned.

Li Sanlang’s eyes appeared to be dripping blood as he glared at Ning Shu.

Then his figure disappeared in a flash.

Ning Shu gritted her teeth and set up a simple yang gathering formation and a spirit gathering formation.

The yang gathering formation could gather the surrounding yang energy. Li Sanlang was an entity of demonic yin. The presence of a large amount of yang energy would certainly weaken him.

The spirit gathering formation gathered the surrounding spiritual energy and would help with her cultivation.

After arranging the formations, Ning Shu immediately sat cross-legged on the ground and began to cultivate.

When her strength was sufficient, she would dispose of Li Sanlang.

Violence wasn’t always a solution to problems, but it could get rid of the people who made the problems.

The surrounding spiritual energy slowly gathered and flowed into Ning Shu's body.

However, the spiritual energy of this world really couldn’t be compared to that of a cultivation world’s.

Ning Shu cultivated until the next morning. She looked at the boarded-up window and mobilized the energy in her dantian. Then she lifted her foot and kicked the window.

After smashing it open, she jumped out.

The Li family’s home was huge. Ning Shu carefully avoided the guards and servant girls. She tried to jump over the perimeter wall, but hit a barrier and fell back down.

Ning Shu fell to the ground and saw Li Sanlang floating above the wall.

Ning Shu’s pupils shrank. It was daytime and the sun was out, but Li Sanlang could still appear.

Li Sanlang was stronger than she thought.

It was obvious that he had suffered from her talisman yesterday, yet she couldn’t see any injuries on him. How fricking great.

Frick!

Li Sanlang hovered in front of Ning Shu and looked at her with his head tilted. "You still want to escape, so you must be given a punishment."

Ning Shu tensed and stared closely at Li Sanlang. Why didn’t his injuries reduce his strength? What was the reason?

No wonder Liu Xiaoya could never run away.

It seemed that she wanted to leave, she had to get rid of Li Sanlang.

Ning Shu’s expression was solemn. She formed a talisman and struck Li Sanlang.

Ning Shu quickly arranged a yang gathering formation and the surrounding yang energy gathered in Li Sanlang’s body, making it emit black energy.

Li Sanlang lifted a hand and looked at his own body. "You aren’t Liu Xiaoya. Liu Xiaoya is a country girl. She wouldn’t know these kinds of tricks."

"Well, no matter who you are, you are my wife. As my wife, you should be obedient. If you don't obey me, you will be punished," Li Sanlang said indifferently.

Ning Shu couldn't help but sigh. Li Sanlang was definitely crazy.

Ning Shu’s fingers flew and she struck Li Sanlang with another talisman.

Ning Shu suddenly thought of the Buddha bracelet that the little monk Hui Ji gave her.

As she did so, the buddhist beads appeared on Ning Shu's wrist.

As soon as the bracelet appeared, the smell of sandalwood permeated the air and the chanting of scripture faintly sounded.

The moment the bracelet appeared, Li Sanlang retreated back several steps and stared at the buddhist beads in disgust.

Ning Su saw Li Sanlang's behavior and knew that this bracelet would be useful.

At last, there was something that could restrain Li Sanlang.

"Put that thing away. I don't like it," Li Sanlang said darkly.

Ning Shu turned her wrist and the smooth and round buddhist beads rolled up and down.

Li Sanlang retreated another step back and stared at the buddhist beads closely. His expression was full of loathing and hostility.

Translator: Kiara

MTL Editor: Wheat

#Kiara’s Comments: Violence is a question and the answer is yes.

#Wheat’s Comments: In this case, violence is the question, answer, problem, and solution. Simple.

TLC: Kaho